Apparatus for stretching and drying laundered articles



Dec. 15, 1925- 1.565.513

A. o. SCHRAMM APPARATUS FOR STRETCHING AND DRYING LAUNDERED ARTICLES U Filed April 17 1924 Fig.5.

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1,565,513 PATENT OFFICE.

UNITED STATES ALBERT O. SCI-IRAMM, OF ST. LOUIS, MTSSOURI, ASSTGNOR TO SCHEAMM MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

APPARATUS ron'srnnrcnine AND 'BRYING'ILAUNDERED ARTICLES.

Application filed April 17, 1924. Serial No. 707,159.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT O. SCHRAMM, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Stretching and Drying Laundered Articles, of which the following is a specification,

This invention relates to an apparatus for stretching and drying laundered articles.

An object of the present invention is to provide an improved carriage and support for a frame upon which laundered articles are supported and stretched for drying.

The frame included in the present invention is of the type and construction disclosed in my copending application Serial No. 707,158, filed April 17, 192 1.

As distinguished from the drying cabinet in which the frame of my said copending application is supported the present invention includes a carriage for supporting the frame so that the frame may be moved into and out of the drying room. The carriage includes meansfor supporting the frame vertically, or horizontally, or at different angles of inclination; another object of the invention being to provide an apparatus designed and adapted for these purposes.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description, reference being made to the drawings in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the invention comprising the carriage and the frame mounted in the carriage.

Fig. 2 1s a broken side elevation of the invention.

The frame 1 is rigid upon a horizontal axle 2 mounted for rotation in bearings 3 in upright standards 4. The standards 4: extend upwardly from the carriage comprising side members 5 connected together by a tube or shaft 6. In the embodiment of the invention shown the standards 1 are attached to the side members 5 of the carriage by angular plates 7. The ends of the shaft or tube 6 are rigidly engaged in clamps 8 in connection with the side members of the carriage. The carriage is supported by a pair of caster rollers 9 at each side having antifriction swivel connection 10 with the carriage.

The side members of the frame 1 are provided with lines or wire bristles 11 for Qllias an arm 15 A'pin or bolt 16 is connected with the arm 15 by a flexible con nection 17. The adjacent standard 1 has a hole therethrough above the axle 2 so that when the frame is in the upright position shown it may be locked in such position by passing the pin or bolt through a hole in the arm 15 and through a hole in the upper portion of the standard 4-. This prevents the frame from oscillating or turning.

A plate 18 is rigid with the standard 4 between the arm 15, and said standard is provided with an areuate series of holes 19 concentric with the axle 2. The holes 19 are the same distance from the axis of the axle 2 as the hole of the arm 15 through which the pin or bolt 16 passes. Thus the frame 1 may be turned to a horizontal position and locked in such position; or may be inverted endwise and locked in such position; or locked in different angles of inclination.

From the foregoing it will be seen that my invention is a complete and convenientlyv useable apparatus including. a frame for stretching and supporting the articles to be dried, and a movable carriage whereby the frame may be moved into and out of a drying room. The invention may be varied within equivalent limits Without departure from the nature and principle thereof, and I do not restrict myself unessentially, but What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is I 1. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a carriage, rollers supporting the carriage, standards rising from the carriage, an axle journaled for rotation in said standards, a frame attached to said axle, and means for locking the frame in connection with one of said standards in position to hold either end of the frame at the top and either side of the frame toward the operator at one end of said carriage, as desired. I

2. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a carriage, rollers supporting the carriage, standards rising from the carriage, an axle journaled for rotation in said standards, a frame attached to said axle, and means for locking the frame in connection with one of said standards in a vertical or inclined position to hold either selected side of the frame toward either end of said carriage, as desired.

3. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a carriage, rollers supporting the carriage, standards rising from the carriage, an axle journaled for rotation in said standards, a frame attached to said axle, and means for locking the frame in connection With one of said standards in a vertical position in which either end of said frame is at the top, or in horizontal position, as desired.

4. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a carriage, standards extending upwardly from said carriage, a

frame rotatively supported by said standards, an arm in rigid connection with said frame and having a hole therethrough, a plate in rigid connection with one of said standards and having holes therethrough, and a pin arranged to pass through the hole in said arm and any selected one of the holes in said plate.

5. An apparatus of the character de scribed, comprising a carriage, an axle rotatively supported by said carriage, a frame attached to said axle, an arm rigid With said axle and having a hole therethrough, a plate rigidly supported by said carriage and having an arcuate series of holes therethrough, and a pin arranged to pass through the hole in said arm and through any selected one of the holes in said plate.

ALBERT O. SCHRAMM. 

